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I'm so excited to announce the release of a groundbreaking new report on school discipline from GSA Network, Advancement Project, and Alliance for Educational Justice, Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right: Why Zero Tolerance is Not the Solution to Bullying.
In the past few years, bullying, and especially bullying of LGBT youth, has finally gained the attention and outrage it deserves. Unfortunately, legislators and policymakers have responded with efforts to "get tough" on bullies. This trend to criminalize bullying with harsh discipline policies like zero tolerance has only made matters worse. This punitive approach results in students being needlessly pushed out of school and placed onto a path into the criminal justice system coined the "school-to-prison pipeline." Not only have these policies failed to make schools safer; their negative effect on students on students is similar to the consequences of bullying.
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right details the harm caused by zero tolerance and harsh discipline, and offers alternatives that protect students from bullying and create safer school environments. We need to stop treating students like they're disposable, and instead create schools that honor every students' right to an education.
Please read the report and then join us for a Twitter Town Hall with the hashtag #bullychat at 4 pm PST, Tuesday, June 26!


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — There were no sacks in Jadeveon Clowney's grand return Saturday, no game-changing plays popping out on the stat sheet. But South Carolina's defensive end made an impact.
It came in the first quarter, after Arkansas punched its first possession down the Gamecocks' throat for a touchdown and early lead. All week, Clowney was lambasted for a perceived lack of leadership, considered a selfish player who put himself before the team.
Over on the visiting sideline of Razorback Stadium, the hulking superstar with a tendency to steal national headlines pulled the defense together, urged them to refocus.
"I was like, 'Man, y'all better get y'all head into this game. We can't keep doing this every week, week in and week out having close games,' " Clowney said. "I told them to come together, man. We've got to be a team out here, and be accountable. Everybody do their job."
From that moment, South Carolina's defense never wavered.
The Gamecocks rallied to score the final 52 points Saturday, beating Arkansas, 52-7, before a crowd of 66,302.
It was the final game in an annual series that had been played since 1992. South Carolina (5-1, 3-1 SEC East) ended the rivalry with bragging rights, winning only its third game in Fayetteville since 1992. It was also USC's biggest blowout in series history, surpassing its 39-13 win in 1997.
The win snapped a three-game losing streak to the Razorbacks (3-4, 0-3 SEC West). Afterward, coach Steve Spurrier offered pity.
"I do feel badly for Arkansas," Spurrier said. "It's no fun getting your butt beat like this at home, homecoming and all that. They're not as strong of a team as they were when they were kicking our tails the last three times I've been in here, but Bret (Bielema) and his guys need to recruit their way out of it. It's going to take a little time, as we all know."
South Carolina took a 24-7 halftime lead, thanks to a 4-yard pass from Connor Shaw to Bruce Ellington. Then the real game began.
In their past three games, the Gamecocks struggled holding onto big leads in the second half. They had allowed 51 fourth-quarter points, more than any other SEC team had given up all season.
Against Arkansas, they looked like a different team, outscoring the Hogs 28-0 in the second half and 14-0 in the final 15 minutes.
Spurrier acknowledged it was the best his team played all season. Junior cornerback Victor Hampton said the defense's sloppy first series was a much-needed wakeup call.
"It's disappointing because you prepare for (that first series all week)," said Hampton, whose first-quarter interception set up South Carolina's first touchdown. "The last thing you want is for a team to feel like they can come out and punch you in the mouth and score on the first drive. We've just told ourselves we've got a whole game to play. Just stop them from now on. Don't let them drive down the field."
USC's defense didn't just hold Arkansas scoreless the rest of the way. It got better as the game went on, allowing just 248 yards and seven first downs. The Gamecocks' defense was on the field for 37 plays Saturday, just 13 plays in the second half.
The defense allowed USC's offense to do what it's done all season, which is score points in bundles and seamlessly balance between its passing and running game.
Senior quarterback Connor Shaw had another strong line, completing 19 of 28 passes for 219 yards, three TDs and no interceptions before being pulled for backup Dylan Thompson early in the fourth quarter.
Ellington caught six passes for 96 yards and two touchdowns, including a 4-yard score with 13 seconds left in the first half that gave USC a 24-7 halftime lead. Sophomore tailback Mike Davis had 128 yards on 19 carries, including a 6-yard touchdown run one play after Hampton's interception.
It was another complete offensive performance, but Saturday was about the defense. Finally, after a week of controversy, the Gamecocks' maligned group responded with their best performance of the season.
Clowney said the defense grew closer this week.
"When I got back, I told the guys, 'Listen, we ain't letting everybody talk about us right now,' " Clowney said. "We're just going to turn up, man. Just keep playing our game, just have fun out there. So I told them, 'Let's all get together, let's have fun today, 11 hats to the ball, and play D.'
"I depend on them, and they've got to depend on me. So that's what I did, told them to just get it together."

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No, I'm not getting ready to pitch alternative justice. I'm not a big believer in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, I would like to see it repealed. President Obama's speech advocating a system of indefinite detention chilled me to the bone. And the trial balloon floated by Benjamin Wittes and Colleen Peppard made my blood boil. The U.S. judiciary has handled crises, criminal trials, trials with heavy political overtones, civil rights, human rights, corporate rights, and every other thing that has been thrown at it and remained resilient.
Torture eats at the court
But not this. I am increasingly of the opinion that there is no possible way for a U.S. court, based firmly on the rule of law, deriving its powers from common law, the Constitution, the U.S. code, and all the international laws, treaties, and customary law, a court in which due process is guaranteed to everyone without regard to background, and which strives to mete out justice and observe the innocence of the accused until proven guilty -- a court with such high ideals and aspirations -- no possible way to accuse someone of a crime and try them in this court, while there is an unspoken allegation that the government bringing the accusation has, in fact, tortured the defendant for years while holding them in conditions of enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention. Because the unspoken rule in a U.S. court of law is that the government bringing criminal charges against the accused has, itself, committed no crime against the accused, and certainly not one of the most heinous of crimes, one for which there is no affirmative defense at all. Whether or not the charges against the government are true, there does not seem to be any way to conduct a real trial when the government stands accused variously of incommunicado detention, torture with threats of death, possible killing of a child, nudity, rape, extreme isolation, and druggings.
First, there is the issue of her appearance in court. Ms. Siddiqui was brought into court by force yesterday. But this is the first time this was done. It wasn't important to have her at court for her arraignment, for her bail hearing, or for her hearing remanding her to Carswell for psychiatric observation. The first time it is totally necessary for her to come to court is when she faces a devil's choice: From her point of view, the prosecution seeks to imprison her for life, the defense seeks to drug her and imprison her for life. Whether or not she is sane, she ascribed her talkativeness to the fact that it might be her last opportunity to try to tell her side of her story -- as she put it, "I've seen people on the drugs, they can't talk."
How was she supposed to sound, and what should she have said or not said? If the charge of 'malingering', leveled at her by prosecution psychiatrists is true, it indicates she will say or do anything to avoid what? A conviction that would put her in jail for 30 years to life. The prosecution psychiatrists also say that recordings of her calls from Carswell to her brother Mohammed (did she know she was being surveilled, and does she have a right to?) indicated that she is fully cognizant of the charges and what is happening with the trial. A Ph.D. in neuroscience doesn't need to be told that a finding of 'psychologically unfit to stand trial' means either forced medication to produce fitness for trial, or indefinite incarceration. If she will take that risk to avoid trial, why would she not take any risk to say anything at all that she thought might help her case, once in front of the judge? Why then would her 'outbursts', no matter how 'rambling', be anything other than an attempt at the preferred outcome? How is it that a court can think of her as crazy when she interrupts them, and sane when she says things to psychiatrists?
In earlier court documents, one of the psychiatrists at Brooklyn MDC, had stated that she might be suffering from the effects of torture. There is a standard protocol for examining a victim of torture for psychological scars and effects. There is no record in any of the public information, certainly not in any news coverage, that the two words Istanbul Protocol were ever spoken in Judge Berman's court, that any of the five psychiatrists who testified at her competency hearing yesterday conducted tests according to that protocol, or that there is any intention of anyone connected with the court, not the prosecutors, not the FBI, not the judge, nor the defense counsel, nor any psychiatrists or anyone else, to follow through and determine, in a standard method used to begin investigation of the victim in case of an allegation of torture, whether or not Aafia Siddiqui has, in fact, been incarcerated or tortured.
Because determination of this fact is distinctly not part of the case, the case is allowed to stand in for others, and behaviors get interpreted as they are not. To begin with, although Aafia Siddiqui was for nearly 5 years the only woman on the al Qaeda top ten wanted list, she is not charged with any crime related to terrorism, the "war on terror", al Qaeda, or even the plot for which she was put on that list. She can't be. Any case that did consider the plot, supposedly a plot to cripple the nation's energy infrastructure by blowing up gas stations, would need to consider where that plot came from. But using that plot in court requires a discussion of how the information of the plot came to be known, and that implies dealing with information obtained from Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, which, since February, definitively involves torture and black sites. So the plot is only mentioned in reference -- only in the complaint and not in the actual charges does any reference to terrorist plots occur, and only in a document supplied to the judge by the prosecutor, asking the judge to consider the case as being linked to that of Uzair Paracha is her relationship to the actual plot participants mentioned.
Detailing how the information was obtained would pinpoint when it was that the manhunt for Aafia Siddiqui began, and that would lead to consideration of when she disappeared, March 29, 2003, a few weeks after Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured and rendered to a black site for torture. Since the prosecution psychiatrists testified that Ms. Siddiqui told them she was back and forth from Afghanistan to Pakistan during the intervening years, again we are stuck with a choice: We can believe the words of this woman as sane and fit for trial, and believe her statement of whereabouts to the psychiatrist and the FBI, and then we will have to believe that the FBI could not find one of the ten most wanted persons in the world, and the Pakistani ISI and military had no idea of her whereabouts, while she worked at a college in Karachi. Or her ex-husband, who contends the family secretly kept her around Karachi to maintain the fiction that she'd been disappeared. Does he also dispute FBI information that she had re-married? That information was also taken from Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, so maybe he does. Or we can believe what she has consistently, along with her family, told others for at least a year, which is that she was abducted on March 29, 2003 by agents and incarcerated, while she was on the way to the train station in Karachi. Take your choice. And remember, this is someone the FBI contends will say anything to anybody in order to secure her freedom.
Next, we can believe that she was picked up with handwritten notes on July 18, 2008, detailing biological and chemical WMD attacks in the New York area. The defense psychologist has argued that the notes prove she is delusional. They detail all sorts of theories on how to create germ weapons -- crazy theories -- going after only people who eat chicken, creating a germ that only attacks adults and not children. They are crazy because she has an undergraduate degree in biology, and a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and knew more than that about germs. When did she write these notes? Many believe that she was under U.S. control at the beginning of July, 2008. That was when Yvonne Riddley and Moazzam Begg began making noises about Prisoner 650, the Grey Lady of Bagram. Pressure grew when Imran Khan and Amina Masood Janjua joined the chorus, and then British Lord Nazim Ahmed, resulting in identifying Aafia Siddiqui with the Grey Lady, to the denials of the American military, which said there had never been a woman prisoner at Bagram. All of which happened before she was taken into custody on July 18, when a shooting occurred.
For this reason, bringing up the subject of whether or not she was incarcerated will bring up whether or not she was left in Ghazni by American or Afghan authorities to be found or killed. In which case did she write the notes in prison, or on the street corner where she was found? Because the Governor of Ghazni contends she was in pitiful condition when found, he photographed her in the famous shot that has had people contending she looks malnourished and abused. The FBI should remember to ask him if she had a pen, and how old the notes were.
Which brings us up to the circumstances of her arrest. It was convenient for Larry Neumeister to write his pieces in twos after her court hearing yesterday. The first, shorter pieces, went out on the wire, where news agencies the world over were waiting for news of the case, and quickly found their way into print in Pakistan and elsewhere. They mysteriously neglected to mention she'd been shot. That came in the follow ups, the more complete articles, after many papers went to print elsewhere in the world. But that's the case. And the FBI and CIA, and all U.S. officials contend they had no idea where she was until the day they came to interrogate her -- the day she was shot, July 18, 2008. But they also contend she was a "'treasure trove' of information on al Qaeda". She was shot and flown to Bagram hospital, where she underwent surgery, which had her still weak from bleeding and infection on her first court date in early August. During the time she was in the hospital, she was restrained, she was in a brightly lit room, and there was an FBI agent there the entire time. After that, she was on the plane, where the FBI again contends she was coherent and talkative, and then in Brooklyn MDC.
So let's talk again about torture. In the small. What was her treatment during those two weeks when she had the only opportunity, according to the FBI timeline, to be a "treasure trove" of information about al Qaeda? And was she then sane during that time? Then why the incoherent, crazy notes at the time of arrest? And what of the arrest? The Ghazni police had contended that she did not grab a gun and fire, that she only approached the Americans, to complain about her treatment in Afghan custody, and they panicked and shot. The Governor of Ghazni did not consider her to be dangerous, his assistant was shown in pictures he took (including the famous one) trying to get her to remove her burqa. He served tea to her and to her son on a couch at his residence. He took a picture of her, which her husband, in some of the same story the psychiatrist relied on to corroborate her whereabouts before 2008, contends was taken after a domestic dispute in Boston. It would seem that her husband's testimony is being relied on only because it makes investigation of the allegation of detention and torture unnecessary, and that Leslie Powers believes it because she can change her testimony to one of malingering from one of 'depressive psychosis'.
Is A Justice System that Systematically Avoids Torture Mentally Competent?
The effort that is being expended to prevent so much as one verdict of torture in the United States is incredible. In this particular case, it is distorting everything about the case. In the related case in Pakistan, the Pakistani government has been ordered to provide for Aafia Siddiqui's defense, negotiate her return to Pakistan with the U.S., and to determine the whereabouts of her children. Oh, yeah, the children. The eldest of those children has spoken in an interview and recalls being moved about, being incarcerated, and being shackled. Perhaps he and his mother, and his family, and Moazzam Begg, Binyam Mohamed, Nazir Ahmed, and others are just collectively hallucinating the incarceration. Perhaps they are all delusional. Except that the number one supposedly delusional person in all this is the very one that the U.S. government contends is sane. Because otherwise they might have to explain how she got that way. So she is 100% sane, but her 'outbursts' in court are delusional. And torture as a word, as a deed that should require investigation, has been banned from all American courts. And extreme isolation, which has a collection of symptoms three of which are exhibited by behavior corroborated both by the characterization of her court appearance and by psychiatrists for both prosecution and defense, is not a candidate for those symptoms no matter what the law of parsimony might say.
Or even if the outbursts from the FBI, the CIA, the President, the court psychiatrists, and everyone else sound delusional and 'rambling. Binyam Mohamed will eventually get his pictures, I have no doubt that the ACLU and Clive Stafford Smith will make sure of that. As for Aafia Siddiqui, the only child whose whereabouts is known is in Pakistan, while her defense and prosecution lawyers decide which kind of incarceration to put her in for the rest of her life. Of course she chose to speak out in court, no matter what she sounded like, no matter what people thought. Anything else would have been a Sophie's choice. And the government and her lawyers should recognize that, and do what they can to re-establish the rule of law in District Court. Until they bring torture into a court room in the United States, perhaps it is the government which is not competent for trial.
Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has got a hold of a letter written by Aafia Siddiqui that the court released after the hearing. Since the letter is marked by the author as personal and confidential and not for the public, it is strange that it should be released by the court, even stranger that this is the sole piece of primary material made available to the public by the press and the court from this hearing. Mr. Weiser characterizes it as a rambling screed against the Zionists/Jews. To be frank, the letter is anti-Semitic, blaming the conflict between America and individuals and countries in the Muslim world entirely on Israel and the Jews, and asserting that "history repeats". But why is no mention made of the long paragraphs opposing war, or the part that reads (after blaming most everything on Israel and the Jews),
...of the kind that are kidnapping people from overseas with children and even babies!), torturing them directly and using their little children as a tool of torture -- or -- simply brainwashing simple-minded youth by pretending to be religious scholars and giving anti-American verdicts...all this in an attempt to make them say/do/write something that can be used to foment war between the US and their otherwise allies (such as the people of Pakistan and most other Muslim countries in the middle-east)...This is true! I am a first-hand witness/victim to this horrible game! It is the sheer favor of my and your GOD, and none other, that I am still "around" and able to write this.Anti-Semitism is not evidence of attempted murder, nor justification for torture. So while it is certainly true that it is offensive, Mr. Weiser does a disservice to the truth to fail to point out that it is the anti-Semitic and conspiracy theory tone of the letter, and only that, which makes it seem at all insane. If that were the case, there are plenty of people on the internet who fit both those criteria. And paranoia and dread of conspiracies are, as well, on Dr. Grassian's list of symptoms of extreme isolation (along with hallucinations, poor impulse control, and oversensitivity to stimuli). And while Ms. Siddiqui's comments are being cherry picked for all that might offend, in the center of the letter is the allegation, still unanswered by either the government or by news organizations like the one Mr. Weiser works for, that Aafia Siddiqui was kidnapped and tortured by threatening or hurting her children.


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Bills players hoping changes lead to better results
The Buffalo Bills' players have high hopes that some strategic changes implemented by new coach Doug Marrone will put them in better positions to succeed this season.
The defensive players think more multiple fronts and more frequent pre-snap disguises will work better than the all-vanilla, all-the-time approach of last year's defensive coordinator, Dave Wannstedt.
On offense, the players are excited about running a more up-tempo, no-huddle attack under new coordinator Nathaniel Hackett.
"I understand there's questions at the quarterback position, and that's the most important position on the field," said center Eric Wood. "But we got a lot of guys coming back on defense with a pretty exciting defensive coordinator coming in. We're gonna be a little more aggressive offensively and try to use some of our youth up front, move around a little bit more and do some exciting things. From my standpoint I don't see why we would need to rebuild."
"It was refreshing," receiver Stevie Johnson said of the first team meeting this week with Marrone. "I like the energy. He could have been the same blah, blah, blah. But it was up-tempo. It felt good to me. I am pretty sure the vibes were throughout the room as well. We are going to be up-tempo and have attitude."
It's a common refrain for players in any sport when a coaching change happens: Better coaching will help make us better. Bills fans have heard it before.
Gregg Williams had been waiting his whole career to run a West Coast offense upon being hired in Buffalo. (He ditched it after one year.)
Mike Mularkey's commitment to power running was going to turn around Buffalo's offense. (It did for one year.)
Dick Jauron's two-deep zone defense was going to overwhelm offenses with speed. (It was terrible against the run.)
Chan Gailey hoped the 3-4 front was the defensive solution. (He ditched it after two seasons.)
Nevertheless, the Bills are embracing some distinctive schematic changes this spring.
On defense, at least, it's not too hard to imagine improvement happening. The Bills ranked 31st in the NFL against the run last season and 26th in points allowed.
The players have some familiarity with the 3-4 scheme new defensive coordinator Mike Pettine used the past four years with the New York Jets, and they like what they saw from the opposing sideline.
The Jets employed a wide variety of defensive fronts and blitzes.
Conversely, the Bills' defense played spread passing offenses last season like it was 1999. They blitzed on just 15 percent of opponents' pass plays, according to News figures, the lowest rate in the league. They relied on a straight, four-man pass rush with their down linemen.
Said edge rusher Mario Williams of Pettine: "Looking at what's happened with him when he was with the Ravens and the Jets is definitely something that everybody should be excited about, including myself. I mean, he definitely has a very outstanding resume ... to put us in the right positions and get us out there playing – just change the mentality of the defense as a group. It's 11 guys on the field, so we all have to have a more upbeat positive mentality."
"I like how he's going to come in and mix it up a little bit for us," said defensive tackle Marcell Dareus. "We're going to play multiple fronts, not just zeroing in on one thing. I think it is a great new look for the Bills. We've got a great new system that I think they are implementing. I really cannot wait to get on in it."
Dareus also liked the Jets' pre-snap shifts.
"Watching the Jets, they like to blitz and bring different guys in and give you different looks," he said. "He didn't like to give the first look off the pre looks. He's gonna disguise a lot more this year. We're going to learn how to disguise a lot more this year a lot better. He just did a lot of things with the Jets I know will be a real big plus for us."
Offensively, any improvement is going to depend a lot on what kind of play the Bills get out of their quarterback. Furthermore, offenses adopting a new scheme, with a new coaching staff and a new quarterback do not usually get off to flying starts.
However, judging from what Hackett did as Marrone's offensive coordinator at Syracuse and what the Bills say so far, the tempo will be faster.
The Bills want to include more no-huddle pace to the offense. It's something newly acquired veteran quarterback Kevin Kolb has done in the past in his career. It's something a rookie might be comfortable with doing, especially if the Bills draft Syracuse's Ryan Nassib.
"I'm excited about that," Wood said of the no-huddle. "I watched them beat the dog out of Louisville, and they looked really good then. That's kind of the way the league's going. New England runs a lot of up-tempo. .... I'm sure we won't be exclusively no-huddle. We're gonna try to keep people on heir heels, and I think that'll put guys in more successful situations."
"They have pretty much just took down all of the stuff that they have ran over the years and put together their own little different offense," said quarterback Tarvaris Jackson. "Up-tempo offense and no-huddle offense. I have done that before, so right now just trying to learn as much as possible."
Hope springs eternal in the NFL offseason.
"I think he's going to energize some people on offense, really hold people accountable and I'm expecting some bigger plays and more points," Wood said. "But any time there's a change of philosophy you always get excited about it.
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Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth - People's Choice Awards 2012 Red Carpet
Miley Cyrus and boyfriend Liam Hemsworth arrive at the 2012 People's Choice Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on Wednesday (January 11) in Los Angeles.
The 19-year-old entertainer paired her David Koma dress with Neil Lane studs, Jimmy Choo heels, and a Marchesa bag.
"Can't wait for People's Choice with my boo today! Can't wait to watch him present =]" Miley tweeted a few hours before the show.
Liam and his The Hunger Games co-star, Jennifer Lawrence, hit the stage to present the Favorite TV Drama Actress Award to Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev.
15+ pictures inside of Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth at the 2012 People's Choice Awards…


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Top 5 Butterfly Farms in Belize
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Belize is home to an estimated 700 butterfly species and many of these can be viewed in the wild, particularly in the inland rainforests. Belize is also home to some incredible butterfly farms and this can be a great way to spot a wide range of butterflies, including one of the most famous species of butterfly in Belize - The Blue Morpho.
If you are planning a trip to Belize and are looking to learn more about the butterflies of Belize, make sure you visit one of these butterfly farms:


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AVON -- Property owners who are going to have to help pay for the $28 million Interstate 90/Nagel Road interchange told the city what they thought of the future tax assessments. And what property owners said let the city know how unhappy they are.
"It's just unfair," Rose Jenne, of Jenne Distributors, said of the way her business will be assessed. The assessment for her six plus acres could be as much as $201,000 with interest.
Jenne Distributors is on Chester Road where the exit ramp would be built, she said. The interchange would hurt rather than help her business, despite being considered to be in a prime spot based on the appraiser's calculations.
The exit ramp would essentially cause her to close one of her entrances because the trucks would not be able to get into the loading area.
"I don't need it (the interchange), and I don't want it," she said. "It doesn't benefit me."
The interchange is believed to impact nearly 105 property owners who will be asked to foot $9 million of the cost. Avon will also need to acquire property from 31 owners to build the interchange. Some property owners will receive assessments in the millions, such as Henkel -- close to $2 million.
Funding for the interchange is being split between the Jacobs Group, which will voluntarily pay a third of the construction cost; the city will pay for another third; and the remaining third will be paid by the property owners through special assessments.
An independent appraiser, Colliers Ostendorf-Morris, compiled a summary of how benefits for property owners from the interchange was calculated in order to come up with the assessments. Factors included proximity to the interchange, visibility from I-90 and existing access and zoning in which commercial land got a higher rating than industrial land. A point system was essentially established that gave the various properties along the proposed interchange numbered ratings.
The city is in need of the interchange because of heavy traffic problems and its something that's been talked about since 1994, organizers said.
The interchange is expected to be complete in late 2012 or early 2013 and property owners wouldn't be expected to pay their assessment until 2014. They will have the option to pay the full amount within 30 days or pay the amount throughout a 20-year period with interest.
"Anytime you talk about money, especially at this magnitude, it's aggravating," Mayor James Smith said, trying to calm the crowd down.
Many were in disagreement with how the assessments were made and how much benefit their business would gain from the interchange.
One concerned property owner called the point system and ratings, "objective opinion," while another property owner said the interchange was being railroaded down everyone's throats.
Smith told meeting attendees that the city had spent much of last year applying for grants to get the interchange funded, but to no avail.
Throughout the meeting, tensions remained high, many upset with the amount of their assessments, when the city really didn't have a set price on the project. A note pad was even passed around for interested meeting attendees to sign up to find out more about bringing a class action lawsuit against the city.
Steve Schaefer said he came to the meeting to get a feel for what's going on and to hear the organizers' plans.
"I understand where they're (organizers) coming from, They're trying to get everything on the table," he said.
Schaefer said while he hasn't calculated the total estimated assessment he'd have to pay for his company, Schaefer Development on Lear Industrial Parkway, the amount is more than likely not affordable for him.
"Tonight's meeting was really just an open discussion," he said. "There were some good things said tonight and some not-so-good things said tonight."


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A little high speed car concept I did the other day. I was pitching an idea I had where cars that were also letters were racing around a track and formed a logo. It was for these folks:
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Sesquipedalian wrote:Also counted as single consonants are qu and the aspirates ch, ph, th...I'm assuming 'gu' can also be added to this list?
Sesquipedalian wrote:8 ) When more then two consonants occur together, usually the first consonant goes with the preceding vowel. Monstrum; Mon-strum
Sesquipedalian wrote:Also counted as single consonants are qu and the aspirates ch, ph, th...I'm assuming 'gu' can also be added to this list?
Sesquipedalian wrote:If syllables didn't end in a consonant, wouldn't this have a pretty big impact on what syllable is heavy or light?
Sesquipedalian wrote:By the way do you have any recordings yourself in classical latin?
Sesquipedalian wrote:I've noticed there's a few websites around where scholars read various texts; are there any in particular you find especially accurate in their pronunciation of classical latin?
Book of Judges, 12.6 // Liber Iudicum, capitulum duodecimum, versus sex. wrote:interrogabant eum dic ergo sebboleth quod interpretatur spica qui respondebat tebboleth eadem littera spicam exprimere non valens statimque adprehensum iugulabant in ipso Iordanis transitu et ceciderunt in illo tempore de Ephraim quadraginta duo milia.
They then challenged him, "say then sebboleth (shibboleth)", which means a head of corn. He then replied "tebboleth", the same letter (t) not being capable of meaning a head of corn, and immediately they seized him and cut his throat right there in the Jordan Pass and they killed on that occasion 42000 of the Ephraimites.
Who or where is that exactly in Keil, Sesquipedalian. Just want to read the context.Sesquipedalian wrote:'Never let a syllable end in a consonant if the consonant can possibly be pronounced at the beginning of the next syllable'
"Keil, Grammatici Latini, volumen quartum, pagina quadringenti viginti septem, lineae de deviginiti ad triginta quinque, wrote:Quotienscumque quaerimus, quae consonantes in scribendo sibi cohaereant vel cui syllabae inputentur, utrum priori an sequenti, similitudo aliorum nominum hunc solvit errorem. Ut puta si dicamus aspice et dubitemus, utrum s et p dividendae sint consonantes et s danda priori syllabae, p sequenti, intellegimus hoc fieri non posse, sed ambas consonantes sequenti tantum modo dare nos debere, eo quod invenitur sermo qui a duabus istis consonantibus inchoetur, ut spica. Similiter amnis: debemus m et n sequenti syllabae dare in scribendo, quoniam invenitur sermo qui ab his consonantibus inchoetur, ut Mnestheus. Attulit: non possumus duo t sequenti syllabae dare, quia nullus sermo invenitur, qui a duabus t consonantibus inchoetur. Et hoc in ceteris consonantibus observabimus. Plane <scire debemus>, conexiones quod dico consonantium non eas quae Latinis syllabis congruunt, sed etiam quae Graecis, excepta scilicet ea syllaba quae constat de b et d, quae in Latinum sermonem numquam ita transit, ut cohaereat, ut est BDELLA. Quando enim scribimus abditur, non possumus a in una syllaba ponere, et b et d in sequenti.
Whenever we ask which consonants in writing belong together or to which syllable they should be ascribed, whether to the one before or to the one following, the similarity to other words solves this problem. Consider if we were to say "aspice" and we were in doubt whether the consonantes s and p ought to be divided and s given to the prior syllable, p to the following one, we understand that this cannot be done but we have to give both consonantes to the following one only, to the extent that a word is found which by both of those consonantes referred to could be begun, such as "spica"(head of corn). Similarly with amnis: in writing we must give m and n to the following syllable, since a word is found beginning with these consonants, as Mnestheus. It is said that we cannot give two t's to the following syllable because no word is found which begins with double t consonant. And we observe this in other consonants. Clearly <we ought to know> the connections of consonants I'm talking about apply not [just] to Latin syllables but also to Greek, except of course that syllable consisting of b and d, which in Latin never tranfers in that way that it would stick together, as is BDELLA. For when we write "abditur" we cannot put the a in one syllable and the b & d in the following.
Never let a syllable end in a consonant if the consonant can possibly be pronounced at the beginning of the next syllable
Alatius wrote:Wait... I don't have Keil in front of me, but isn't Servius simply talking about how to divide words in writing, such as when the end of the line is reached prematurely and the word needs to be split?
Keil, IV, pagina quadringenti viginiti duo, lineae viginti et sex et septem, wrote:Quattuor sunt liquidae, l m n r. Sed frequenter utimur duabus, prima et quarta, raro secunda, tertia nunquam nisi in Graecis nominibus.
There are four liquids, l m n r. But frequently we use two, the first and fourth, rarely the second, never the third unless in Greek names.
Keil, Grammatici Latini, volumen quartum, pagina quadringenti viginta duo, lineae ab decem ad tredecim, wrote:Communes syllabae modis fiunt octo. primus modus est, si correptam vocalem duae consonante sequuntur, quarum prior muta quaepiam est vel f semivocalis et sequens liquida: est enim longa in hoc, 'vasto Cyclopis in antro'; brevis in hoc 'vastosque ab rupe Cyclopas'.
Syllables become common in eight ways. The first way is if two consonants, whose first is any mute [b c d g h k p q t] or a semi-vocalic f and the following is a liquid, follow a short vowel.
Sesquipedalian wrote:Thanks for those links Adrianus, very helpful.
I was thinking of getting the audio for Lingua Latina by Orberg, however some other posts on Textkit were saying his pronunciation can be a bit strange i.e, he uses /v/ instead of /w/ etc?
Ohh I just realised after reading Alatius's comments I might have been ambiguous. I'm definitely talking about dividing the sounds of the latin words, not the writing. So I was wondering what everyone else does for syllabification. Vox Latina has been very helpful, though I find it extremely in-depth. So I will be having LOTS of questions
Do any of the latin dictionaries provide syllabification along with marking the long vowels? What's considered a 'good' dictionary for classical latin?
Lastly (apologies for the long post) am I safe in putting the accent on the first syllable of a latin word? I cant seem to find where Allen talks about disyllables, but a quick google search seems to suggest in two syllable words the accent always goes on the first syllable.
(Keil, 'Commentaria Servii in Donatum', Grammatici Latini, col. iv, pp. 424, 425, wrote:Communes syllabae modis fiunt octo.
primus modus est, si correptam vocalem duae consonantes sequuntur, quarum prior muta quaepiam est vel f semivocalis et sequens liquida: est enim longa in hoc, 'vasto Cyclopis in antro'; brevis in hoc 'vastosque ab rupe Cyclopas'.
secundus modus est, cum correpta vocalis in unam desinit consonantem sequente h, quae aspirationis est nota: est enim longa in hoc, 'terga fatigamus hasta'; brevis in hoc, 'quisquis honos tumuli'.
tertius modus est, cum correptam vocalem duae consonantes sequuntur, quarum prior s littera est: est enim longa in hoc, 'unde spisssa coma'; brevis in hoc,
ponite: spes sibi quisque, et haec quam angusta videtis.
quartus modus est, cum correpta vocalis partem terminat orationis, quae in unam desinit consonantem: est enim longa in hoc, nam tibi, Thymbre, caput Euandrius abstulit ensis; brevis in hoc 'hoc caput o cives'. quamquam et si in nullam desinat consonantem, videtur posse exemplo probari: invenies enim apud Virgilium: dona dehinc auro gravia sectoque elephanto. sed sciendum est quod brevis syllaba potest pro brevi et pro longo poni.
quintus modus est, cum diphthongum vocalis sequitur: est enim longa in hoc, 'Musae Aonides'; brevis in hoc, 'insulae Ionio in magno'. sed et hoc tunc contingit, cum nulla consonans intervenit et nudam diphthongon sequitur nuda vocalis.
sextus modus est, cum nudam vocalem vocalis sequitur. est enim longa in hoc, 'o ego infelix'; brevis in hoc, 'sub Ilio alto'.
septimus modo est, cum pronomen c littera terminatum vocalis statim subsequitur: est enim longa in hoc, 'hoc erat alma parens'; brevis in hoc, 'solus hic inflexit sensus'. sed quando c pro duabus consonantibus ponitur, debet cum quadam conlisione proferri.
octavus modus est, cum brevem voaclem sequitur z: est enim longa in hoc , 'Mezenti ducis exuvias'; brevis in hoc, 'nemorosa Zacynthus'.
Syllables become common ["communes" or "mediae" means either long or short] in eight ways.
The first way is if two consonants, whose first is any mute [b c d g h k p q t] or a semi-vocalic f and the following is a liquid, follow a short vowel.; for it is long in this 'vasto Cyclopis in antro'; short in this 'vastosque ab rupe Cyclopas'.
The second way is when a short vowel ends in a single consonant with a following h, which is an indication of aspiration: for it is long in this, 'terga fatigamus hasta'; short in this, 'quisquis honos tumuli'.
The third way is, when two consonants, the first of which is an s, follow a short vowel: for it is long in this, 'unde spissa coma'; short in this, ponite: spes sibi quisque, et haec quam angusta videtis.
The fourth way is, when a short vowel ends part of a speech, ending in a single consonant: for it is long in this, 'nam tibi, Thymbre, caput Euandrius abstulit ensis'; short in this 'hoc caput o cives'. Although if also it should end in no consonant, it [the rule] would seem able to be demonstrated by an example: for you will find in Virgil: dona dehinc auro gravia sectoque elephanto. But it has to be understood that a short syllable can be put for a short or for a long one.
The fifth way is, when a vowel follows a diphthong: for it is long in this, 'Musae Aonides'; short in this, 'insulae Ionio in magno'. However at that time this also is happening, when no consonant is intervening and a bare vowel is following a bare diphthong.
The sixth way is, when a vowel follows a bare vowel. for it is long in this, 'o ego infelix'; short in this, 'sub Ilio alto'.
The seventh way is, when a pronoun ending in c immediately follows after a vowel: for it is long in this, 'hoc erat alma parens'; short in this, 'solus hic inflexit sensus'. But when c stands for two consonants [hocce/hicce?], it should be deferred with a type of clash.
The eight way is, when z follows a short vowel: for it is long in this, 'Mezenti ducis exuvias'; short in this, 'nemorosa Zacynthus'.
Sesquipedalian wrote:Lastly (apologies for the long post) am I safe in putting the accent on the first syllable of a latin word? I cant seem to find where Allen talks about disyllables, but a quick google search seems to suggest in two syllable words the accent always goes on the first syllable.
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Oftentimes, the journey is the reward when touring wine country.
Take, for instance, Walter Dacon Wines near Shelton. The southern end of the Olympic Peninsula is not classic wine country (though the state's first bonded winery after Prohibition began on Stretch Island, not far away).
Walter Dacon, run by Lloyd and Ann Anderson, launched in 2005 with the release of the 2003 vintage. The Andersons focus almost exclusively on Syrah, using grapes from some of the top vineyards east of the Cascades, including Boushey near Grandview, Williams on Red Mountain and Elephant Mountain not far from Zillah.
The Andersons named the winery after Walter Dacon, who was Lloyd's grandfather. Lloyd, who handles the winemaking, was born in California. His father was in the military, so he lived all over the world as a child. After earning a forestry degree from the University of California in Berkeley, he moved to Washington to work for Weyerhaeuser. He left the company in 1981 to start a consulting business. After the Andersons took up home winemaking as a hobby, they were encouraged by friends to turn it into a business.
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The Andersons also make a Syrah-based blend called Skookum Red. It's named after the Chinook word for "good." And the Andersons live on Little Skookum Inlet.
"Everything around here is named skookum," Anderson said with a laugh.
Though the Andersons typically have to drive 10 hours round trip to bring home their grapes from the Columbia Valley, they enjoy being on the peninsula, just 20 minutes from Olympia.
"It's pretty obscure here on the peninsula," Lloyd said, adding with a smile, "But we call Shelton the Syrah capital of the world!"
In fact, a bit of a wine industry has sprung up in the south Puget Sound, with more than a half-dozen wineries in the area. It is enough for the wineries to form the South Sound Wine Trail and market themselves as a destination for wine lovers along the Interstate 5 corridor.
Here are two Walter Dacon wines we've tasted recently. Ask for them at your favorite wine merchant or contact the winery directly at 360-426-5913.
Walter Dacon Wines 2008 C'est Cyrah Magnifique, Yakima Valley, $42: Lloyd Anderson admits this is his favorite wine. He was inspired by the wines of Hermitage in the northern Rhne Valley. The wine opens with inviting aromas of oak spice, boysenberry and cocoa powder, followed by flavors of blueberry, blackberry and dark chocolate. It's a hedonistic wine on the palate yet has all the acidity it needs to pair with lamb, beef stew or smoked pork.
Walter Dacon Wines 2009 Skookum Red, Columbia Valley, $22: This is Walter Dacon's least-expensive bottling and one of the only wines that includes grapes other than Syrah.
In fact, it is a blend of Syrah, Sangiovese and Grenache. It offers aromas of black cherry, cedar, cardamom and dark chocolate, followed by bold flavors of ripe dark fruit, black pepper and succulent spices. Enjoy with pizza, ravioli in a red sauce or barbecued chicken.
*Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman run Great Northwest Wine, a news and information company. For more information, go to www.greatnorthwestwine.com.


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Professor Donna Gregg is appointed a Fellow at Maryland Think Tank
Donna Coleman Gregg, a visiting faculty member at the Columbus School of Law for the 2009-2010 academic year and a key advisor to the Institute for Communications Law Studies, has been appointed an adjunct senior fellow of the Free State Foundation, a non-profit, nonpartisan free market-oriented think tank based in Potomac, MD.
In this new position, "I'll be contributing scholarly articles and other pieces to Free State Foundation publications and participating in FSF policy conferences and educational seminars," said Gregg.
Her first scholarship for the think tank, "The Hazards of Prescriptive Regulatory Intervention in a Rapidly Changing Marketplace," was published in Perspectives from FSF Scholars on Sept. 8, 2009, and was quoted in both Communications Daily and Multichannel News.
Prior to entering academia, Gregg had a distinguished career as a communications lawyer in both public service and private practice. Most recently, she served at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Senior Policy Advisor to the United States Ambassador to the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference. She is a former chief of the FCC Media Bureau and was also vice president of legal and regulatory affairs and general counsel of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In private practice she was a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding. Gregg is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association, a former trustee of the FCBA Foundation, and a current co-chair of the FCBA Law Journal Committee.


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|13 May 2009
New Windows 7 logo revealed?
Leaked box shots and a closed Microsoft-only FaceBook group reveal what appears to be the new look of Windows 7.
As an army of programmers and testers hammer away on Windows 7 in one part of Microsoft's sprawling Redmond HQ, a smaller team of designers and graphic artists are already in high gear for the impending Windows 7 marketing assault.
It's a salvo that will begin before the new OS launches around October and continue in varying degrees and forms until Windows 8 arrives some three years hence.
First up is a new brand identify for Windows 7 which reaches beyond the jewel-like Windows logo itself. This appears to have been finalised as a stylished chevron with the now-mandatory lens flare effect.
The logo was first sighted on Windows 7 retail box shots leaked at the start of this week by Polish Web site Centrum XP. While initially suspected as being fan-created fakes, some detective work by Aussie blogger Long Zheng uncovered an invitation-only 'Windows Lounge' Facebook group restricted to Microsoft employees.
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I don't think that one will be the final logo, I think they can do better.
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That has took a small team of designers and graphic artists? Well it really must of exhausted their collective imagination.
I also do not think it will be the end product, in fact I think it's a doodle that has escaped from the toilets.
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This logo looks more like something made by an enthusiast rather than a professional, unless Microsoft decided to really cut costs in this time or crisis.
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That's horrible.
If they seriously want to attract people into buying this, I don't think they will use that for marketing. Not clear enough and too bright. Irritating almost. With all the anticipation and build up to the release, so many people are used to seeing the circle logo that it wouldn't now make sense to change it!
We shall see.
Won't stop me buying it when it comes out though! lol.
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The biggest market for W7 will be businesses. They want stuff to look professional and maybe a little bit "Old fashioned and boring".
Things like facebook etc give an impression of "Pimply geeky teenness" which isn't really an image one wants to sell to big business.
I know there are some 90 year olds etc using facebook but the general perception - even if wrong is that these type of sites are really the province of "The Ipod Generation".
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Hey hey, why all the logo hate? Honestly, I think it convey what windows 7 is perfectly from an artistic standpoint, although I don't know whether it is real or not obviously.
Honestly, its obvious they're going to highlight the "7", how much more can they actually do with a 7? I think a "Bolder" larger Seven would not represent the OS at all... 7 isn't an incredibly bold operating. It's an operating system that's pretty and is just there. It flows nicely. Also, the exclusion of the word "Windows" in the logo further helps differentiate the product from vista and all the negativity.
Personally, I can't see the logo being much better. This would also fit their logon screen design scheme. The logo is simple, and it works, like the OS =P.
I think that logo will probably be used moreso for packaging and the like though. Not for like TV ads. For those I expect it to maybe incorporate this design somehow through some light ray animations, but also include the word "Windows" in there somewhere, just so they know its an operating system.
Also, "bright" is kinda Microsoft's thing right now. I mean, have you not seen the 7 Shell UI and logon screen? It's all uber bright XD.
Ahh i really wish MS would include more Aero themes, like for window borders and such. That would truly help it differentiate the product.
Haha, I just noticed that if you look closely, you'll see that the 7 in the logo is pretty much in the exact shape of one of the corners of the flag in the Windows logo XD. That's quite the smart design touch. Lol this makes me think even more now that it's official.
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Its not necessarilly the logo OF windows, just a design on the box.
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Beyonce Sings National Anthem with Backing Track? (Video)
Beyonce's performance of the Star Spangled Banner at this week's Presidential Inauguration has sparked a ton of debate – was she singing live or was she lip-syncing?
A new video, along with analysis from British audio engineer Ian Shepherd, shows that Bey was indeed singing along to the song with a backing track.
In addition to the two different audio feeds heard in the video, Ian points out several points, including that her voice is hard to hear in the beginning before the sound-man quickly corrected it, her head tilting toward the microphone at 1:16 causing a bassy sound, and being able to "hear" her smile at 2:17.
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Beyonce Sings National Anthem with Backing Track? (Video)
UPDATE: An inauguration official has spoken out anonymously, telling CNN, "she did not sing live. Because she didn't have time to rehearse with the Marine Band, she decided to use her recording with the Marine Band. It was all Beyonce."


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A 1915 U.S. Hygiene Laboratory photo shows a boy being tested for diphtheria immunity. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of American History.
See if you recognize this story: A small group of academics and analysts come together to propose reforms to the U.S. health care system.
They want to help workers, the elderly, the poor, and others whose needs aren't being met. But instead of working with those groups, they try to gain the acceptance of industries whose interests are threatened. Popular movements have no sense of ownership, doubt that the plan will work, and offer little support. The health care industry mobilizes against the plan, calling it socialist, and it never becomes law.
Flashing back to the Clinton bill of 1993? Predicting how the Obama plan will turn out? Actually, I was describing a proposal made in 1915. Though favorably reviewed by congressional and state commissions, the proposal's only partial legislative success was in New York, where protesting women suffragists and trade unionists had added it to their demands. Elsewhere, the reformers' emphasis on lobbying and research alone couldn't build the necessary momentum. Meanwhile, insurance companies, conservative politicians, and business and physicians' organizations derided the proposal and compared it to Bolshevism.
For the rest of the century, health care reform efforts—one led by the Committee on the Cost of Health Care in the 1920s, the short-lived inclusion of health coverage in the New Deal, the Wagner-Murray-Dingall bill of the Truman era, and, of course, the Clinton plan—followed the same storyline.
In each case, says historian Beatrix Hoffman, "the relentless opposition of medical, business, and insurance interests pushed reformers to design health care proposals around placating their opponents more than winning popular support. In turn, ordinary people had trouble rallying around complex proposals [that didn't recognize] a universal right to health care."
The root of the problem, Hoffman says, was that the proposals came from elites who sought to compromise with interest groups, where they believed real power lay, rather than to ally with grassroots movements. Reformers gave up too soon—folding to entrenched interests before assessing the strength of their own hands. They failed to enlist the support of the majority of Americans who favored public health care, just as they failed to unite the diverse, already mobilized social movements—like those for civil and women's rights, organized labor, or, later, for AIDS and cancer funding—that considered it a worthy, but politically unlikely, goal.
This same dynamic still operates today. Reformers and opponents alike have treated this latest attempt as a political game—what concessions can (or should) be squeezed from powerful industries?—rather than as the righting of an injustice that concerns us all.
Our failure to reframe the issue is part of the reason that, though we've been at it since 1915, we're the only industrialized nation without universal access to health care.
But this time, we may have a chance to transform the debate. The broad, committed, grassroots movement that was missing before is beginning to take its rightful place in the equation: marching in the streets, petitioning Congress for real solutions, and mobilizing to debunk the myths spread by industry.
Still, we can only get so far unless we learn from past failures. A plan that ignores the demands of the people in favor of industry (say, by leaving a single-payer system off the table) runs the risk of losing that crucial grassroots support. The belief that health care is a human right and ought to be universally accessible in a country as rich as ours is not just a good idea in itself. It's a powerful rallying cry, necessary for achieving the sustained grassroots momentum we need to succeed this time around.
Brooke Jarvis wrote this article for Learn as You Go, the Fall 2009 issue of YES! Magazine. Brooke is YES! Magazine's Web editor.


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Knitting is Knotty's one year anniversary landed on the end of August. The Eugene Celebration was the same weekend. We were also due for another yarn bombing. Coincidence or the stars lining up in our favor?
We had decided that as a celebration, we would change venues for the night. Instead of our usual haunt, The Divine Cupcake, we would meet at Eugene City Brewery. Known for their Rogue beer and good food we also knew it was big enough to house us all and had good enough light to knit.
We also decided to do another yarn bombing. Our last bombing took place on April Fools Day. We knitted little things here and there along Willamette Street. We had a blast, but most of our tags were gone the very next day. We were pissed!! The ones that did last longer than a few hours barely made it a week. Was it people who wanted them and removed them? Was it the city? We're not sure. Regardless, we knew we wanted to do it again.
When we talked about another bombing, we decided to make a larger, more visual striking installation. Maybe the reason the last tags got taken so quickly is because they looked like random pieces of knit. If we created a more uniform bomb, would it look more like art? We all decided to knit the meters cozies along 8th street. It was so much fun! We had 9 people participating and 13 cozies. All as unique as the person who created it.
We also made a cozy for the Eugene Saturday Market's office door handle. We had tagged their door during the last bombing and they loved it. It was also incidentally the knitted piece that stayed the longest. So this time, to make it special, we all made a flower and attached a corsage or bouquet to their door. I hear they are thrilled about their new one and their neighbors are green with envy.
We installed them Thursday night, and as of today, Sunday they're still there! All of them! We've seen people take pictures of them, we've heard people talk about them. Success!! I definitely think we're on to something here and I think we're all ready to start planning the next bomb. You can see all of our meter cozies on our flickr page.


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THEFT ARREST: Club Out $27,000
The former treasurer of the Donahue Sportsmen's Club faces a felony theft charge after about $27,000 of the club's funds vanished.
Kris Oetzmann, 38, of Donahue, Iowa was arrested November 21, 2012 after an investigation that lasted about two months. The investigation started after the Scott County Sheriff's Department received a complaint that money was missing from the Donahue Sportsmen's Club.
Oetzmann was the club's treasurer from January 31 to September 18, 2012. He is accused of misappropriating about $27,000 of the club's money during that time.
Oetzmann was arrested when he surrendered to the sheriff's department November 21. He was charged with one count of first-degree felony theft.
Oetzmann was free on $10,000 bond. His next court appearance was set for December 20, 2012.
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The stars were aligned for our first-ever High Line Snow Sculpt-Off yesterday. The overnight snowfall had blanketed the High Line with nearly a foot of sticky, wet snow that was perfect for packing. By the time our staff had finished clearing the snow (check out the video to relive the magic), the weather had warmed up just enough to enjoy being outside. An added bonus: schools were canceled and the neighborhood kids were looking for something to do.
"It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces—volunteers, neighborhood residents, and colleagues—being so creative!" Danya Sherman, our Deputy Director of Programs & Education, said. "The High Line is and always will be a place for neighbors being innovative—and having fun."
Follow us after the jump for more coverage, video, and photos.
Fifteen teams competed for the top prize: an iPod Shuffle, a behind-the-scenes tour of the High Line, and a gift certificate to Amy's Bread. The teams wowed us with a variety of innovative sculptures, including dinosaurs, octopi, a caterpillar, the Holland Tunnel, the Empire State Building, and more. (Check out the video above, courtesy of the Daily News.)
In the end, the judges, Robert Hammond, Co-Founder of Friends of the High Line; Lauren Ross, Friends of the High Line's Curator & Director of Art Programs; and Juwan Stone, our Media Intern, picked the snow dragon to win the top prize.
The dragon was created by Gabriel Willow, Rebecca Pappas, and Raj Kottamasu, three friends from Brooklyn who told the judges their sculpture was intended to be a metaphor for the High Line. We're still not sure we follow, but no matter. The group impressed us with their attention to detail and their creative use of the Diller-von Furstenberg Sundeck.
Mica and Noa Yoder's snow rats were a close runner-up. The girls, students at NYC Lab School, won day passes to Chelsea Piers. We had three third place winners—an octopus, created by Chelsea resident Deborah Fenker, the Empire State Building, and "Snow Rex," created by a group of students from NYU. Both teams went home with passes for The Standard's ice skating rink. An honorable mention was given to a bathroom sculpture, a piece inspired by, its creators told the judges, the cleanliness of the High Line's restrooms.
Thank you to everyone who turned out for the first-ever High Line Snow Sculpt-Off on the High Line yesterday. We were thrilled to see our neighbors, friends, and fellow New Yorkers enjoying the High Line in the winter. We hope the snow creatures will inspire others to come back again soon.


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Imagine a metal band at a house party. On ripped-up sofas, overturned chairs, and a floor littered with empty cans and bottles, a crowd moshes wildly as the band trashes its way through the set. A glass vase falls from the shelf, shattering on the tile floor and bringing the party to a halt. The moshers disappear, the sofas are repaired, the cans and bottles are (mostly) gone, but the band remains.
When Left Brain rehearses, it's always a house party.
Left Brain started as a jam band, with John Allen on guitar, Steve Keator on drums and Tristin Rogers with vocals. They spent the summer of 2005 jamming until bass player Michael Clifford joined the ranks in September. With the final spot in the band filled, Left Brain got serious about taking their music beyond just a hobby. The first step: moving into Keator's house.
"We all live together, we eat together, we practice together," Keator says. "If you're going to go on the road, travel the country and live in tour buses, you'd better start living in a house and see if you can get along."
Shortly after the move, they signed up to play their first gig—a block party that failed miserably. (The host of the event didn't acquire the needed permits, so the party was cancelled.) Left Brain called a friend at Harlow's on the Hill and booked their debut concert, which included other bands from the defunct show. "It was our most valuable lesson," Keator says. "We need to do this ourselves."
On top of each member working a full-time job, Left Brain is continually writing new music, attending shows of other local bands, flyering for upcoming shows, being ever-present in the rocksquawk.com online community and playing their own gigs. They do everything themselves—even putting together their debut album, Bury the Facade, with a little help from Sid Garcia of Sight 16 Studios.
Bury the Facade is the first album Left Brain has released for mass consumption. But in reality, this isn't their first record—it's just the first record they've liked enough to bring outside the studio. Six months ago they completed a 10-song demo CD they weren't happy with, so they took the loss and didn't release it. "The music wasn't as hard as we wanted it to be, it wasn't as deep as we wanted it to be," Rogers says. All this from a band that's just over a year old.
The depth of Bury the Facade comes in a few different flavors, the first and most obvious being its depth of craftsmanship. The professional quality of the album art--all original work by guitarist, graphic artist and self-declared promotion whore Allen--is a gateway into the equally professional and driven musical story inside. Through haunting bass hooks, forceful lyrics, raging guitar and driving percussion, Bury the Facade embodies hard rock with depth not often found on a debut album. Left Brain has arguably earned the moniker "The Hardest Working Band In Burque" and Bury the Facade is one more piece of evidence.